NEW YORK — Project Solvers, a source for freelance and full-time personnel in the fashion and design-related industries, has merged with Resolve Staffing.
Resolve Staffing is a national network of independent staffing agencies servicing niche markets. Terms of the merger agreement were not disclosed. Taking full advantage of Resolve’s network, Project Solvers is planning an expansion to the West Coast, according to Anne Maxfield, president of Project Solvers.
Maxfield, an honors graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, is also the 2005 recipient of the National Association of Women Business Owners NYC Signature Award. She cofounded Project Solvers with Leslie Frank in 1988. They met at Dary Sue Fashions — Maxfield was design director and Frank was director of marketing — while collaborating on the introduction of the Jaclyn Smith line to Kmart. They came up with the idea of a one-stop-shopping service as they routinely outsourced talent to fill the needs of the Jaclyn Smith project.
In the 18 years of operation so far, Project Solvers has placed more than two million hours of freelance assignments and referred hundreds of professionals to major apparel firms, including some Fortune 500 companies. The firm, which handles freelance and full-time personnel, maintains a database of candidates from fashion designers to pattern makers whose skills include fashion merchandising, apparel production and technical design. Other design-related sectors where the company has placed workers are home furnishings, advertising and cosmetics.
Project Solvers will keep its offices at 30 West 22nd Street here.